Palestinian Child Soldiers: The Horrifying Silence

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29. Here's the Cover of Life Magazine, 1970 about Palestinian child soldiers...

This has been going on for decades.



Harvard surgeon on child throwing a grenade...

VIDEO: Arafat: Dead children are greatest message to the world

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=711&fld_id=722&doc_id=479



Amnesty International 2005:

"Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly shown total disregard for the most fundamental human rights, notably the right to life, by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and by using Palestinian children in armed attacks. Children are susceptible to recruitment by manipulation or may be driven to join armed groups for a variety of reasons, including a desire to avenge relatives or friends killed by the Israeli army."

According to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, in the al-Aqsa Intifada, children were used as "messengers and couriers, and in some cases as fighters and suicide bombers in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians" during the al-Aqsa Intifada. Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have all been implicated in involving children in this way. [font color = "red"]The issue was brought to world attention after a widely televised incident in which a mentally handicapped Palestinian teenager, Hussam Abdo, was disarmed at an Israeli checkpoint.[6][/font] The youngest Palestinian suicide bomber who blew himself up was Issa Bdeir, a 16-year-old high school student from the village of Al Doha. He blew himself up in a park in Rishon LeZion, killing a teenage boy and an elderly man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_suicide_bombers_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict


Australian Aid Worker's personal account of child suicide bombers...

160 Gazan children die digging tunnels for Hamas....
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=8776547&ct=14138051


Palestinians use children to provoke IDF soldiers....

More recently from 2014, DCI-Palestine classified 17-year old twins as innocent children (Anas and Saad) killed by Israel:
http://www.dci-palestine.org/september_4_update_indefinite_truce_brings_relief_and_hope_to_exhausted_gaza_population

Seven children died on July 20 as a result of intense violence in the Shuja�iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. Saad and Anas al-Sakafi, 17-year-old twins, died when their family�s home was targeted in an airstrike.

Of course, they were child militants:

http://saraya.ps/post/39219/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B3-%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9